under the sea

These things that Huazhi has long been accustomed to, in He Zexi's eyes, are the most miraculous sights he has seen in the past 20 years.

As a deep sea researcher, He Zexi is not the kind of layman who knows nothing about the deep sea.It was precisely because of this that he could more directly feel how amazing what he saw now.

As he spent more time in the deep sea, He Zexi found that his eyesight became more and more acute.When he first woke up, he could only see about ten meters away.But now he can clearly see the subtle things around him, even things a hundred meters away can be seen clearly.

For example, about 40 meters to his left, there is a huge orange-red sea disc car starfish slowly devouring a sea urchin covered in thorns; obliquely in front of him is a deep-sea giant algae, under the giant algae , lying an ugly blobfish about half a meter long.

In any case, this situation seems to be of great help to He Zexi for the time being, because it greatly facilitates his observation of marine life.

Because of the submarine volcanic activity, the sea water near He Zexi's current sea area is much warmer than the sea water in other places.

Especially the submarine volcanic vent, where the temperature is estimated to be at least two hundred degrees Celsius based on normal conditions.It stands to reason that under such harsh temperature conditions, it should be difficult for life to survive, but this is not the case.

In addition to sea anemones, barnacles and other invertebrate biota around the volcano, there are several huge purple-red sea anemones growing and living nearby in the eruption center of the volcano.

Suddenly, a black plume of smoke spewed out again from a distant volcanic vent.

Dozens of tentacles of the several purplish-red sea anemones fluctuated in the direction of the heat flow, and then four or five strange red and blue clownfish in the hidden giant sea anemones showed their heads from the sea anemones.

The sea anemones growing there actually have symbiotic fish?He Zexi was astonished.

What kind of gene can breed such tenacious vitality?

He Zexi stared at the direction of the sea anemone and clownfish for a while, then turned his head solemnly and asked Huazhi: "Can I go there? Will the Gaowen lava at the entrance of the volcano burn me to death? Those black poisonous fog Will it poison me?"

Now he is not the one who knows He Zexi's body best. His body has been transformed by Huazhi by some unknown method, so although he has a vague feeling in his heart that he should be able to pass, but to be conservative, He Zexi decided to ask the person next to him. A giant cuttlefish that knows what it's doing.

Huazhi, who was struggling to drive away the crabs, raised her head and looked at He Zexi. Although she didn't know why, she still replied quite proudly: "Of course not. You are the companion of our flame squid clan, and the poisonous fog of molten lava on the seabed How would it affect you.

However, although it looks very close to the central mouth of the volcano, it is actually very far away.Of course, if you ask me, it is not impossible for me to take you there, after all, you know that my speed is very fast..."

He Zexi completely blocked what Huazhi said in his mind.After hearing the words "Of course not", he took out the sampling knife in his pocket, and then walked towards the sea anemone and clownfish.

Seeing He Zexi's white figure getting farther and farther away from her, Hua Zhi's voice became softer and softer, and finally she simply stopped talking with a gloomy face.

He Zexi wasn't even listening!

Huazhi suddenly thought of a sentence he had heard from a human on the giant ship when he was secretly following the giant ship at sea—it felt like a punch to the cotton.

The flower branch now feels like a punch in the cotton.Although he doesn't know what cotton is, Huazhi feels that he can understand the meaning of this sentence very well now, which probably means the same thing as him bumping his head into a sponge.

And He Zexi was that sponge.

The more Hua Zhi thought about it, the more panicked she felt.

At this time, another fluffy little snow crab crawled over and landed on the arm of the flower branch.

Huazhi lowered her head, drove it away viciously, and violently waved her slender tentacles to vent her anger: "Go away, little bastard. Whoever dares you to wear white clothes, quickly take them off!"

Little Snow Crab:! ! ! ! !

Hearing these words, the group of snow crabs that were trying to crawl back to their breeding habitat stopped in unison.

A second later, all the snow crabs ran sideways and hid in the nearby seaweed pile.Only two eyes were exposed, carefully staring at the ten-clawed fish not far away that stretched its wrists at the slightest disagreement, and frantically pulled out the white hair on the chest of its clansmen.

Terrible.

He Zexi had no idea that a snow crab had a miserable birth due to his lack of cooperation.After about 10 minutes, he has come to the front of several giant sea anemones.

Standing here, He Zexi didn't feel any discomfort except that the surrounding temperature became a bit higher than all other sea areas before.

A strong warm current passed by, and the submarine volcano once again spewed out a burst of heat, and then the sea water made a low, unique sound——

"Wow-wow-wow-gululu..."

He Zexi carefully clamped a petal-shaped tentacle of the giant sea anemone with a clip, cut it off lightly, held it in his hand for observation for a while, and then carefully put it into a palm-sized transparent in a plastic bag.

At this time, a clownfish hidden in the sea anemone slipped out of it.It swam up in front of He Zexi, staring at He Zexi with its small round eyes, and the moment He Zexi got up, it rushed back into the giant purple anemone like lightning, revealing only a small Head to spy on the outside world.

Although clownfish are called clownfish, they are actually not ugly at all, and they can even be said to be a very beautiful fish.Because of their interdependence with sea anemones, they are also called "tropical anemone fish".

The sea anemone provides shelter for the clownfish, the clownfish lures predators for the sea anemone, and the residue left behind after the sea anemone eats in turn provides food for the clownfish - this is a creature in nature in order to survive. A set of coexistence rules derived from a series of complicated evolutionary processes, two irrelevant species, in order to survive, form a close symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship.

In fact, human beings are also symbiotic creatures. When choosing the most beneficial way of survival for themselves, they are helping other individuals intentionally or unintentionally, even if they don’t know about it——

He Zexi moved a little closer, observing these timid and pretty guys carefully.You must know that the most high-temperature-resistant fish in the world discovered by humans so far is a small fish living in Idupuru Island. They live in the waters near Idupuru Island where the water temperature is as high as 70 degrees Celsius.

However, the temperature of the sea water here obviously exceeds [-] degrees Celsius, and this group of clownfish lives here vividly.

He Zexi stared at these creatures hidden in the sea anemone in astonishment, his excitement was second only to the mood when he found the flower branch.

He Zexi really wanted to take one back, but this peculiar species of clownfish was too big for a plastic bag, and it couldn't fit in it at all.Even if it is barely contained, the space in the plastic bag is too narrow and airtight, which may lead to its death.

He Zexi didn't want to see such a result, so he might as well give up.After all, collecting samples of high-temperature-resistant giant sea anemones is already a great harvest.

I don't know when the flower branch that had finished plucking the snow crab's chest hair came over. Seeing He Zexi staring at the clownfish that didn't even have any tentacles, he couldn't help being a little contemptuous: "Do you like them?"

The sudden appearance of the flowers and branches scared He Zexi into shaking his hands. After he calmed down, he nodded and said, "They are amazing."

Hearing this, Hua Zhi moved his eyes slightly, then stretched out his sinful tentacles, and said - "I'll catch a few for you."

Then, in less than 30 seconds, the originally vibrant marine biota suffered an unprecedented catastrophe.

After catching the last clownfish, Huazhi calmly withdrew her tentacles and threw the clownfish in front of He Zexi after taking a look at the miserable giant sea anemone floating in the sea like tatters.

"It's all for you." Huazhi wrote lightly.

Hearing this, He Zexi lowered his head stiffly, looking at the neatly lined up motionless clownfish at his feet, He Zexi felt a bit complicated in his mood.

The atmosphere suddenly became very silent.

After a while, He Zexi said quietly: "Actually, I prefer live fish..."

Huazhi: "..."

Huazhi lowered her eyes, without speaking, she stretched out her nine tentacles and lashed her whip a few times. The dying, half-dead clownfish lying on the ground, some of them jumped a few times, and then rolled their eyes and spit out a small bubble.

Huazhi sneered and said, "Play dead?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the clownfish that were still a little bit angry began to slowly float up, turning their white bellies and floating upwards.

He Zexi: "..."

Huazhi: "..."

He Zexi raised his head to see the clownfish off, and tightened the sampling knife in his hand, feeling that his heart was bleeding.

Just now, he watched a newly discovered species suffer the fate of genocide in front of his eyes...